Articles and Databases

The International Coalition on Newspapers is a coordinated multi-institutional effort to increase the availability of international newspaper collections by improving both bibliographic and physical access to global newspaper collections.

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Illustrated descriptions for every recorded edition published from movable type from 1450 to 1500.

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A unique visual archive of 19th century Victorian Britain, including illustrations and photographs of events ranging from the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the Boer war. 

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Access to online dictionaries, language lessons, translation services, and other language-related Internet resources.

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Includes16,000 pages of text, 8,300 illustrations, numerous maps, and lesson plans, this exhibition documents 400 years of migration to, within and out of the United States

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British national newspaper covering the U.K and the world.

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The Index of Christian art is a thematic and iconographic index of early Christian and medieval art objects begun at Princeton University in 1917, the index catalogs primarily Christian art from early apostolic times to approximately 1400 A.D. The database contains a portion of the index's backfiles as well as all works cataloged since 1991.

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Index to Jewish Periodicals is the definitive index on Jewish history, activity and thought. This database provides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs.

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Indexes periodical issues' entire contents: articles, art notes, illustrations, stories, poems, and advertisements. NOTE: This database is currently experiencing intermittent service outages.

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The Index to Printed Music: Collections & Series is a tool for finding individual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly editions, as it indexes each individual piece in a collection. Music for specific performing forces is easily retrievable, thus offering detailed repertory for performers, conductors, and directors of ensembles.

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Provides access to an online catalog of over 30,000 nineteenth-century works available on microfiche. The microfiche collection is called Nineteenth Century Microfiche Collection and consists of English-language texts published in all parts of the world except North America between 1801 and 1900 and located in the British Library and other libraries.

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An index to roughly 800 Eastern European Yiddish periodicals, many of which are in NYPL's collection. In English, Yiddish, and Hebrew.

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Includes full-text of the Information Please Almanac as well as an online dictionary and an online encyclopedia.

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Provides a wide range of data on the neighborhoods of New York City -- population, immigration, land use, public assistance, birth, death, hospitalization and much else.

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Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees: The West’s Response to Jewish Emigration

contains primary source correspondence, memoranda, reports and government documents including meeting records, country files, subject files, and administration files.

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An interdisciplinary index to book reviews published in scholarly journals, primarily in the social sciences and the humanities, including many European journals.

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Contains all of the content available in International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance as well as full text for 100 titles, including Canadian Theatre Review, Dance Chronicle, Dance Teacher, Modern Drama, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Research in Dance Education, Research in Drama Education, Studies in Theatre and Performance, TDR: The Drama Review, Theater, and more.

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Provides demographic and socioeconomic statistics for 227 countries and areas of the world.

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IIPA covers the subjects of dance, film, television, drama, recorded sound,theater, stagecraft, musical theater, broadcast arts, circus performance, comedy, storytelling, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic and more. Contains over 172,013 records providing current and retrospective coverage, with citations dating back to 1864.

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Includes current and retrospective citations and abstracts from scholarly journals and newsletters from the U.S., Africa and the Caribbean--and full-text coverage of core Black Studies periodicals.

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Produced by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) as part of the International Film Archive database, this cumulative index contains almost 230,000 citations to articles from academic and popular film journals. Full bibliographic descriptions and comprehensive subject headings are provided.

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Indexes over 350 and provides full text for nearly 100 international music periodicals from more than twenty countries, with over 50 of the publications indexed exclusively in IIMP. IIMP is both current and retrospective with over 30,000 records dating from 1996 to the present and other records dating as far back as 1874.

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This index contains circa 50,000 citations on television subjects from film and television periodicals. Since 2000, however, indexing related to television has been restricted to articles appearing in film journals and periodicals; periodicals relating solely to television are no longer indexed.

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Text Archive enables you to search and view the full-text of scanned books via the Web.

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A definitive source for the facts on Broadway musicals and plays from Aristophanes to Ziegfeld. Includes number of performances, extensive credit information, theatres, characters, and more.

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Huge, fully-searchable database of film information, including credits, plot summaries, character names, movie ratings, year of release, running times, soundtracks, country of production, genres, production companies, distributors, special effects companies, reference literature, filming locations and movie trivia.

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Selected by librarians in the Jerome Robbins Dance Division at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

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Selected by Librarians in the Billy Rose Theatre Collection and the Dance and Drama Circulating Collections at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

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Selected by librarians in the Music Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

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Selected by librarians in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

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Selected by librarians in the Billy Rose Theatre Collection and in the Dance and Drama Circulating Collections at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

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Search investment analyst's reports on companies & industries from over 500 brokers in North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. Search by company, industry, or keyword.

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Index of Italian immigrants arriving in the Port of New York.

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